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From: lakeedge on 13 Feb 2010 17:14

To Shenan Stanley - you still haven't answered the man's question: what
does the Compression Client do? I get the impression that you don't have
a clue, and think you can bluff around it by quoting links and KBs. Guys
like you give techs a bad name.

lakeedge


From: Overclocked on 14 Feb 2010 06:18

That's not fair lakeegde - Shenan provided a link to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927374 - the answer is there in the
first paragraph.


From: 20100209 on 14 Feb 2010 06:32
lakeedge wrote:

>Guys like you give techs a bad name.
>
>
All MVPs (Microsoft Valuable Pigs) have already done that long time ago.


From: serulin on 5 Mar 2010 16:55

Overclocked;1178666 Wrote:
> That's not fair lakeegde - Shenan provided a link to
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927374 - the answer is there in the
> first paragraph.

Wow guys, can we be a little less literal here? Obviously he wants
someone to explain what the hell all that technical mumbo jumbo means.
We aren't all technical savy here you know?

Perhaps an example of a program that uses it or a better definition for
the normal user from one of you techies would be more than what he is
asking for.


From: Paul on 6 Mar 2010 04:20
serulin wrote:
> Overclocked;1178666 Wrote:
>> That's not fair lakeegde - Shenan provided a link to
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927374 - the answer is there in the
>> first paragraph.
>
> Wow guys, can we be a little less literal here? Obviously he wants
> someone to explain what the hell all that technical mumbo jumbo means.
> We aren't all technical savy here you know?
>
> Perhaps an example of a program that uses it or a better definition for
> the normal user from one of you techies would be more than what he is
> asking for.
>

Here is another article that explains delta compression.
The main value of this article, is the section at the top.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb417345.aspx

It is a way of sending a change to a file, without having
to send the whole file. For it to work, both parties have
to agree that the copy of the file they currently have,
is the same. Otherwise, such a delta scheme could never work.

*******

Years ago, there was a similar concept used for text files.
This illustrates the concept a little bit. The article claims
this method was invented almost 30 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff

Paul
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